1924 Dietz Monarch Kerosene Lantern-Made in USA

1924 DIETZ "Monarch" Hot Blast Kerosene Lantern-Fitzall Globe
MADE IN USA-NEW YORK
Excellent Condition (aged metal patina)-NO CRACKS OR CHIPS-Glass is clear
Weighs 1 lb 15 oz
13 1/2" Tall and 8" Max Width
No wick
R.E. Dietz Company was a lighting products manufacturer best known for its hot blast and cold blast kerosene lanterns. It was started in 1840 when its founder, 22-year-old Robert Edwin Dietz, purchased a lamp and oil business in Brooklyn, New York. Though famous for well-built indoor and outdoor kerosene lanterns, it was a major player in the automotive lighting industry from the 1920's into the 1960's.
Dietz also produced the majority of road work warning lights, the first of which were oil lanterns (with their Traffic-Gard trademark) and road torches which looked like cannonballs with large wicks. Kerosene was normally used in these lamps. Later they developed some of the first transistorized warning lights using standard 6-volt lantern batteries, which either blinked in timed intervals or had a steady light.
Dietz Monarch:
The Dietz Monarch was first introduced in 1900, and has been produced in at least seven distinct variations continuously over the 120 years. The first and oldest style Monarch had a flat top tank, un-reinforced air tubes, and a 9/16" fuel cap. A very rare variation of the flat fount version is the Monarch Dash Lamp, which is similar to the Buckeye Dash Lamp. The Monarch was made with a side lift until about 1909 when Fred Dietz applied for a patent for a "Blizzard" style globe lift, similar to that used on the C. T. Ham Clipper. Patent #1035549 was issued for the unique globe lift on August 13th, 1912, but was only used on the Monarch through 1915, coinciding with Fred Dietz' passing. Since the, the globe has been made with a side lift as it had originally, now called LOC-NOB "Fitzall" . A LOC-NOB "Fitzall" refers to the pair of ears on a Dietz lantern globe used to keep the globe from falling out when tilting the globe plate for lighting or trimming the wick. It is presumed that in 1910 the flat tank was changed to a domed tank, coinciding with the addition of horizontal reinforcement beads to the air tubes, Charles Erb patent #962135. Then, in 1912 the fuel cap size was changed from 9/16" to 3/4". When the "Blizzard Style" globe lift was abandoned in 1915, a vertical reinforcement bead was added to the air tubes. The 1915 version was produced into the 1940's. Making use of the popular Art Deco designs, in 1936 Dietz modernized the "Monarch" and "Little Wizard" with a "Streamline" design with accentuating curves. The "Streamline" version of the Monarch is the most often seen lantern in the Hollywood Westerns of the 1940's and '50's. The Streamlined Monarch and Little Wizard lanterns were first introduced with a "plain" fount, then were revised with a reinforced "stepped" fount in 1938. In 1956 when Dietz relocated the lantern factory to Hong Kong, the tooling for the streamline Monarch was kept behind, so the mothballed tooling for the 1915 version of the Monarch was set up in the new factory. The streamline Monarch was made into the 1960's, and is arguably the most common lantern to be found today.
Production date: Most Dietz lanterns made between 1915 and 1956 have a production date stamped on them, usually in the form of an "M" or "S" followed by the month and year. The "M" indicates Dietz's New York City "Main" Factory #1, while the "S" indicates Dietz's Syracuse Factory #2. The date is typically located on the upper part of the air tube to the right of the fuel cap, or under the patent dates. Dietz stopped stamping production and patent dates into lanterns in 1956.
"N.Y. U.S.A." marking: If your Dietz lantern is marked "N.Y. U.S.A.", it was made before 1970.

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